matthew cogswell

Current

• Creative Director at Rhino Entertainment
• Sr. Art Director - Digital Marketing at Trailer Park

Past

• Director of New Media at Six Degrees
• Founder / Creative Director / Designer at OPUSIA
• Adjunct Professor at Art Center College of Design

• Adjunct Professor at Art Institute of California
• Co-Founder at DEAF EYE

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Education

• Art Center College of Design

Connections

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Website

matthew cogswell’s Summary

A creative leader with proven experience in design, concept, marketing and team management. With extensive experience in branding, advertising, print, film and interactive, my expertise affords me the ability to create cohesive, immersive, engaging and meaningful experiences across a variety of platforms. Fully versed in visual metaphor and branding, I act as a translator, taking a visceral goal and creating a tangible and discernible means of fully expressing that emotional objective.

My background in fine art expresses itself through pragmatic imagination as well as an ability to visually support and communicate any erstwhile intangible inspiration. I have harnessed my penchant for psychological study into the areas of positioning and UX, to name a few.

matthew cogswell’s Specialties:

• branding & identity
• design & advertising
• typography
• print (all aspects –from concept to delivery)
• interactive (all aspects –from concept to implementation)
• strategy and implementation of brand initiatives
• consultation and client liason
• psychology of the user (for print & multimedia)
• animation (traditional & 3D)
• film (directing, editing & post-production)
• fine art (traditional & digital)

matthew cogswell’s Experience

• Creative Director

  Rhino Entertainment

  (Public Company; WMG; Music industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

  Direct To Consumer;
  
  • Oversee all creative product & manage designers.
  • Brand development, expansion & guardianship
  • Interactive usability & UX as well as create new ways of facilitating D2C content avenues and interactive initiatives.

• Sr. Art Director - Digital Marketing

  Trailer Park

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Entertainment industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Responsible for overall project quality. Interface directly with clients and department heads on current and future projects. Manage the creative team to ensure craftsmanship & ingenuity, deadline fidelity and tech integration on digital initiatives for the world's leading entertainment brands

• Director of New Media

  Six Degrees

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  Headed all New Media initiatives including building Six Degrees' new media department and educating the firm and it's clients on the digital space. Lead all team members involved in New Media or Digital design and implementation and was responsible for Cross-Media integration with print and A/V campaigns for Fortune 100 clients - primarily in the pharma and luxury spaces.

• Founder / Creative Director / Designer

  OPUSIA

  (Design industry)

  2004 — 2006 (2 years)

  Worked as an independent contractor & consultant under the name "Opusía Studios". Provided branding and positioning consultation for major entertainment luxury organizations. Supported this consultation with design initiatives including the 75th Academy Awards and the 2006 Golden Globe Awards.

• Adjunct Professor

  Art Center College of Design

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Design industry)

  2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

  Taught Experimental Typography

• Adjunct Professor

  Art Institute of California

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

  Taught various courses on all levels of typography, design, advertising and visual metaphor. Redesigned the curricula for design tracks to emphasize typography, concept, visual communication, personal expression and overall quality.

• Co-Founder

  DEAF EYE

  (Design industry)

  2000 — 2004 (4 years)

  Co-Founded a cross-media branding firm dedicated to print and digital service integration for a variety of clients - primarily entertainment, luxury, medical and civic organizations. Oversaw all aspects of business including New Business, Client Relations, PR, Design, Client Interface, and tech integration.

matthew cogswell’s Education

• Art Center College of Design

  BFA , Illustration , 1996 — 1999

  • 70% Scholarship upon entrance
  • Graduated with Distinction (summa cum lauda) - Art Center's highest honor
  • Work featured in student gallery and collected by professors
  • Contributed to student publications
  • Thesis project acquired by the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Additional Information

matthew cogswell’s Websites:

• My Website

matthew cogswell’s Interests:

Fine Art, Ancient History, Human Psychology, Language & Communication, The Natural & Unnatural World, Cultural Anthropology & Societal Interaction,

matthew cogswell’s Groups:

AIGA, GAG, SCBWI, PETA, WWF, The Nature Conservancy,

matthew cogswell’s Honors:

Work in the permanent collections of the following museums:

• The Huntington Library, CA
• The Grüenwald Collection at the UCLA/Hammer Museum, CA
• The National Gallery of Art, DC
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

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